Indian Wooden Printing Block - Swirl TreeIndian Wooden Printing Block Swirl Tree All our woodblocks are made on a fair trade basis from sustainable Sheesham wood by our supplier Gurmakh and his family in India. Each is hard carved. The men do the carving by making a design in metal wire, heating it and then stamping it onto the raw blocks. The scorched marks are then used as a template for hand carving the design. Next the women soak the blocks in linseed oil, dry them and finish them with a